California is scrambling to avoid blackouts. Your refrigerator could help
Sometime next summer, there's a decent chance a heat wave will bake the American West, and California's power grid will again be stretched to its limits.
Jan 6, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Sometime next summer, there's a decent chance a heat wave will bake the American West, and California's power grid will again be stretched to its limits.
Jan 6, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
As electric cars and trucks appear increasingly on U.S. highways, it raises the question: When will commercially viable electric vehicles take to the skies? There are a number of ambitious efforts to build electric-powered ...
Nov 27, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
Less than a mile from a sea otter-filled estuary popular with kayakers sit row upon row of tall, steel white cabinets perched on low concrete platforms, the space between them crisscrossed with gravel paths. All is quiet, ...
Jun 15, 2022
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Engineering
The Green IC research team at the National University of Singapore has developed an innovative technique that allows the transfer of bits (the basic unit of information in computing) across a silicon chip up to five times ...
Jun 11, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
Back in September of 2017, Apple showed off a new product called AirPower, which was a wireless charger that could power three devices at once. Apple showed the AirPower charging an iPhone, some AirPods and an Apple Watch ...
Jun 3, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Batteries are undoubtedly part of our energy future. Should you put one in your home now to store solar output, manage your energy use and cut costs? It really depends on what you want to achieve.
Dec 16, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
The development of intercalation-type Li-free transition-metal-based cathodes and Li-metal anode paired all-solid-state batteries appears a viable alternative to overcome the energy density limitations faced by current rechargeable ...
May 15, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Charge-recharge cycling of lithium-super-rich iron oxide, a cost-effective and high-capacity cathode for new-generation lithium-ion batteries, can be greatly improved by doping with readily available mineral elements.
May 2, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
You've probably experienced the dread of a suddenly dead phone that is glacially slow to recharge. Add to that earbuds or laptops that die at the most inconvenient times. And perhaps you've delayed shopping for an electric ...
Feb 12, 2024
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Business
Pulling on makeshift roped hooks along a sun-drenched bank of the Seine River in Paris, Youva Hadjali and Edison Gompo fish out two electric scooters—not the most ecological fate for devices billed as a carbon-free fix ...
Nov 13, 2019
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